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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Congress grudgingly bowed to the White House last week and approved $8.1 million in humanitarian aid for the rebels. (The package: $4.6 million for food, clothing and medical supplies, along with $3.5 million to deliver the goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Battles of Bullets and Dollars | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

The job description includes the ability to find a dentist who will pull a tooth late on a Saturday night, round up a photographer to shoot a corpse, book a flight out of a city shut down by snow, arrange blood tests for a wedding, deliver 24 rolls of dental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Magicians at the Desk | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Minskoff is not alone. Anyone who has shopped for a TV or VCR this season knows that television is going through some dramatic changes. The immediate effect is a flood of models endowed with high-tech conveniences, enormous screens and dazzling special effects. Waiting in the wings is a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: In Case You Tuned In Late | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

In the days leading up to the election, trucks transporting voting materials were attacked and vandalized. When election officials requested helicopters to deliver ballots to outlying posts, the government brusquely refused. Electoral council offices were ransacked and burned. All nine members of the electoral council received death threats. Yet the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Blood in the Ballot Box | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

The attackers, who oppose the regime of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, spared the life of a 13-year-old girl so that she could deliver a note explaining the massacre as an assault on "capitalist oriented" values. The victims, two of them Americans, belonged to a Pentecostal community engaged in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Bloodbath in The Bush | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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